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Resolved: That subject to the approval of the Trustees of the 
Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, the Board of 
Managers of the New York Botanical Garden be requested to 
designate Dr. Hollick Honorary Curator of the Collection of 
Fossil Plants. 
Resolved: That the Director-in-Chief be and he is hereby 
authorized to loan the Staten Island Association of Arts and 
Sciences, from time to time, such specimens of fossil plants of 
the Garden collection as Dr. Hollick may wish to study in con- 
tinuation of his investigations. 
In my last annual report, mention was made of the 
establishment of the new grade of Associate Curator, the 
object being to provide for the promotion of such assistant 
curators as may be entitled to a higher rank, but for whom 
curatorships are not available. At our last meeting, it was 
resolved to recommend to your Board that Mr. Percy 
Wilson be thus promoted. 
The scientific work of the Garden during the past year 
has been markedly active and efficient. This is especially 
true of authorship and publication, in which are included 
the works of the members of the staff published otherwise 
than by the Garden itself. The publications of the Garden 
include complete volumes of the BuLLETIN, JouRNAL and 
Mycotoctia, the latter containing descriptions of nearly a 
hundred new species by Dr. Murrill, and three parts of the 
Nortu AMERICAN Fiora. Outside publications by mem- 
bers of our staff are the second edition of Britton and Brown’s 
“Tilustrated Flora,’ the second edition of Dr. Small’s 
“Flora of the Southeastern United States,”’ and four descrip- 
tive works on Florida plants by Dr. Small. An elaborate 
work on the Rocky Mountain flora has been completed by 
Dr. Rydberg in connection with his work in the classification 
of our collections, but no way of publishing it has yet been 
found. 
Work on the preparation of the manuscript of our Guide, 
not only to the buildings and grounds, but to the plants, 
has progressed satisfactorily. "The same is true of the work 
